Cing submitted “Puti” and “Si Mama is Right” as his entries in the competition that aimed to discover the best unsigned original musical artists in the Pacific.
According to Pacific Break coordinator Sally Macmahon, “Puti” and “Si Mama is Right” were highly rated by the judges and were played on Radio Australia.
“They are great songs,” Macmahon told Cing’s wife, Daria, in an e-mail.
Macmahon said after an “extremely hard task” of selecting the winner, the three judges picked III Kings’ “You Alone Me Magnify” as the winner.
The band is from the Solomon Islands.
The other Pacific islands that submitted entries this year were Yap, Samoa, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Kiribati, Fiji, Vanuatu, Palau, Cook Islands and Pohnpei.
III Kings’ song edged Fijian solo artist Milkshake’s colorful and free-flowing rap, “Channel 1,” Solomon Islands Deskem’s “Work Done My Fren” and PNG talent Samantha Clark’s “Here We Go Again.”
The Pacific Break 2010 winners will perform at Fest’napuan, a four-day music festival in Port Vila, Vanuatu on Oct. 20.
